Targeted Careers
Career positions targeted by the Exercise and Health Science program include:
- Research and teaching positions in university settings
- Allied health positions in clinics or laboratories (e.g., cardio-pulmonary rehabilitation, bariatric surgery, diabetes management)
- Health and fitness specialists
- Strength and conditioning specialists
- Medicine
- Physical/occupational therapy
- Clinical research
- Positions in companies that develop, test, market, and sell health/fitness and performance related products.
Curriculum
Coursework emphasizes the health benefits and consequences of regular physical activity on physiological, cellular, and motor integrity. Assessments of cardiovascular and respiratory fitness using graded exercise stress tests are routinely performed. Metabolic, blood lipid and blood pressure measures, electrocardiography, electromyography, video motion measurement, and ground reaction force measurements are other commonly used assessments.
Admission Requirements
To be considered for this program you must apply online to the Miami University Graduate School. Complete information is available at the Graduate School admission page.
